A primitive fish close to the common ancestor of tetrapods and lungfish

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6899, 2002, Pages 767-770

  Zhu, Min ^a   Yu, Xiaobo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY;

FOSSIL TAXON;

OCEAN HABITATS;

DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EYE; FISH; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FISHES; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

COELACANTHIDAE; CROSSOPTERYGII; DIPNOMORPHA; ENTOVALVA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037102208     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00871     Document Type: Article

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